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No. 678,097. Patented Iuiy 9, I90I. T. J. BROWNING.

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(Application filed Apr. 23, 1901.)

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UNITED STATE-s4v PATENT OFFICE'.

rIILLIII J. BROWNING, oF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

, HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NQ. 678,097, dated July 9, 1901.

T0 all whom if may concern/.f

Be it known that I, TILLIII YJ. BROWNING, a citizen 0f the United States, residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hooks, of which the `following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specication.

One object of my invention is the production of a hook which shall be constructed so that when sewed to the garment it will be held in firm and immovable position and so that in securing the same to the garment the fabric adjacent to the front ofthe hook. will be drawn up ou a substantial level with the bill of the hook, thus concealing the front end of the hook from view and causing it to rest in a sort of pocket or relatively-depressed portion of the fabric, whereby when the twosections of the garment are secured together byengaging the eyewith the hook the said two sections of the garment will lie flat against each other without any lgaping between them.

Another object of the invention is to provide 'a 'special member around which the securingthread may be passed `to secure the front of the hook to the garment instead of passing the securing-thread around the front of the shank. This latter Inode 'of attachment isV objectionable, in that the thread has a tendency to slip back upon the shank of the hook.

Another object of the invention is to prey vent that part of the garment through which the said securing-thread is stitched from sinking by strain beneath that part of the front v of the hook around which the securing-thread extends.

Another object of the invention is to sov construct this thread-engaging member that it shall consist of a single thickness of Wire extending transversely wholly or partly across the front of the hook.

Another object of the invention is to so form that portion of the front of the hook around which the securing-thread is passed that the stitches may be sewed on successively or side by side instead of being hunched one over the other at about the same point,

Serial No. 67,045. (No model.)

bine these advantages in a unitary structure.

I will now describe the several specic embodiments of my invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of the preferred form of hook embodying myinvention. Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively side and end views of the same. Figs. 4, 5,and 6 are respectively plan, side, and end views of a modified form of hook. Figs. 7, 8, and 9 are respectively plan, side, and end views of. another modification. Figs. 10, 1l, and 12 are respectively plan, side, and end views of another modification. Fig. 13 is a sectional view through the fabric and the longitudinal center of the hook of Figs. l, 2, and 3. Fig. 14 is a section view on the line 14 14, Fig. 13.

In all of the constructions illustrated the Wires forming the shank portions (A A', Figs. 1, 2,' and 3; D D', Figs. 4, 5, and 6; H'H, Figs. 7, 8,Y and 9; K K,Figs. 10, l1,`and 12) are bent upwardly and thence successively` backwardly and forwardly to form the bill, l(B, Figs. 1, 2, and 3; E, Figs. 4, 5, and 6; I, Figs. 7,8, and 9; L, Figs. 10, 11, and 12,) the forward extremities being joined or -merged by means of a cross-bar, (C, Figs. 1,

2, and 3; G, Figs. 4, 5, and 6; J, Figs. 7, 8,

Vand 9; `rM, Figs. 10, 11, and 12,) around which the thread is passed which secures the front of the hook to the garment. The cross-bar, as shown in the drawings, is located at the front of the hook and is substantially above the level of the shank portions and substantially on a level with the bill.Y

In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the backward and forward bends of the bill lie side by side and more or less close together, the front of the forward bends being just sufficiently above the level of the front of the backward bends to permit the cross-bar to overlie the latter. ln this form the forward bends are outside of the backward bends. A

In Figs. 4, 5, and G the forward bends of the bill are above and in substantially the same vertical plane as the backward bends of the bill.

In Figs. 7, 8, and 9 the forward and backward bends of the bill are slightly twisted, the bends lying side by side at the rear and the forward bends overlying the backward bends at the front.

In Figs. l0, ll, and l2 the backward and forward bends of the bill lie on substantially the same horizontal plane and more or less close together, the forward bends being inside of the backward bends.

The hook is secured to the garment by s'uccessive stitches across the single thickness of wire forming the cross-bar. The thread cannot slip back upon the shank, because it is not passed around the front of the shank, as in the ordinary hook. The garment when the hook is sewed thereto is drawn up in front of the hook onto a substantial level with the bill of the hook, thus causing the hook to rest in a sort of pocket formed by the garment itself, as shown in Figs. 13 and 14, in which figures the ends of two sections of garment are shown hooked together, the eye Y being engaged with the hook A A A2 B C. This produces an invisible hook and permits its attachment close tothe end of the garment.

It avoids any gaping between the two sections of the garment when hooked together by means of the ordinary eye; nor can the eye when in use contact with the securingthread passed around the cross-bar. Even when a straight eye is used it cannot contact with the thread, owing to the cross-bar overlying the front of the rearwardly-extending bends of the bill. When the two sections of garment are brought together and the eye engaged with the hook, both hook and eye are hidden from view no matter how close to the edge the hook may be secured. When the ordinary curved or semicircular eye is used, a special member having a swell or hump is unnecessary. When a straight or surface eye is used, it is desirable to provide a member having a swell or hump.

The different forms of hooks shown in the drawings are provided with such a member, the same consisting of a prolongation of one of the members of the shank bent forwardly, (lettered A2 in Figs. l, 2, and 3; D2 in Figs.' 4, 5, and 6; I-I2 in Figs. 7, 8, and 9; K2 in Figs. IO, l1, and l2.)

It is obvious that any of the described forms may be modified without departing from my invention, and I do not confine myself to the specific forms described.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

1. A hook for garments in which the wire forming each shank portion is bent successively upwardly, backwardly and forwardly, the ends of the forward bends being joined by an integral transversely-estending thread-engaging member, substantially as described.

2. A hook for garments, in which the wire forming each shank portion is bent successively upwardly, backwardly and forwardly, the en'ds of the forward bends being joined by an integral transversely-extending thread-engaging member, said member being at the A front of the hook substantially above the line of the shanks and forming a cross-bar around which the securing-thread niay'be stitched, substantially as described.

3. A hook for garments, in which the wire forming each shank portion is bent successively upwardly, backwardly and forwardly, the ends of the forward bends being joined by an integral transversely-extending threadengaging member, said member overlying the front of the backwardly-extendin g bends,substantially as described.

4. A hook for garments comprising two shankrportions, a bill, and a cross-bar, each side of the bill being formed by a double thickness of wire, one wire of each side of the bill being formed by an extension from one of the shank portions, the other wires being joined by an integral transversely-extending threadengaging member at the front of the hook.

5. A hook for garments comprising two shank portions, a bill, and a cross-bar, each side of the bill being formed by a double thickness of wire, two of the wires on opposite sides of the bill being joined by an integral transversely-extending thread-engaging member at the front of the hook.

6. A hook for garments comprising two shank portifons, a bill, and a cross-bar, each side of the bill being formed by a double thickness of wire, one wire of each side of the bill being formed by an extension from one of the shank portions, and the other wires of the bill being formed by extensions from the firstnamed wires respectively, and being joined by an integral transversely-extending threadengaging member at the front of the hook.

7. A hook for garments in which the wire forming each shank portion is bent successively upwardly, backwardly, and forwardly, the ends of the forward bends being joined by an integral transversely-extending threadengaging member, the forward and backward bends lying substantially side by side.

8. A hook for garments in which the wire forming each shank portion is bent successively upwardly, backwardly and forwardly, the ends of the forward bends being joined by an integral transversely-extendin g threadengaging member, the forward and backward bends lying substantially side by side, and the transversely-extending thread-engaging member overlying the front of the backward bends.

9. A hook for garments comprising two shank portions, a bill and cross-bar, each side of the bill being formed by a double thick- IOO IIO

" the crossl named Wires, respectively, and the cross-bar 3 thefbill being located at the front or eye-engaging end `the hook. of the hook.

Ising two In testimony of which invention I have I5 y. each side hereunto set my hand at Philadelphia on this ness of Wire, the shank porti bar being integrally oonnefA at the front or eye-engagi 10. A hook for germe 5 shank portions, a bill and c of the bill being formed by a double thick- 17th day of April, 1901. nessof Wire one wire of each side of thebill T i being integrally connected with one of the TILLIE J' BROWNH (L shank portions at the front or eye-engaging Witnesses: Io end of the hook and the other` wires of the CEAS. COBB VAN RIPER,

bill being formed by extensions from the rst- M. M. HAMILTON. 

